Playwright, composer, lyricist, director, producer, and star performer George M. Cohan (1878–1942) looms large in musical theater legend, remembered for tunes like “You’re a Grand Old Flag” and “Give My Regards to Broadway.” Cohan’s early… Read More

A fresh exploration of the life and work of American expatriate artist Julius LeBlanc Stewart (1855-1919), whose depictions of expat high society in Paris won acclaim in Europe and the United States and still feature… Read More

Compliments of Hamilton and Sargent explores the history of the Gilded Age, using three people as its guide. Robert Ray Hamilton was a state lawmaker from New York and the great-grandson of Alexander Hamilton. John Dudley Sargent came from a long… Read More

Charles Cowlam’s career as a convict, spy, detective, congressional candidate, adventurer, and con artist spanned the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Gilded Age. He is the only person known to have been pardoned by both Abraham Lincoln… Read More

As Americans–both civilians and veterans–worked to determine the meanings of identity for blind veterans of World War I, they bound cultural constructs of blindness to all the emotions and contingencies of mobilizing and fighting the… Read More